This article has been rewritten to correct an error and to incorporate some lessons learned including a fix for parallelism, a work around for paritioned tables/views, and to demonstrate additional proofs. That article is located at:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/68467/
The discussions for the old article are still available at the following URL
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic449802-203-1.aspx
Thank you for your patience during the rewrite.
Sincerely,
--Jeff Moden
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